A potential gateway to understanding liver disease development: peripartum lipid fluctuations in dairy cows.

ABSTRACT: Current lifestyles are leading to a worldwide increase in metabolic liver diseases that favor the development of liver disease. Changes in hepatocytes are caused by altered lipid concentrations, oxidative stress or toxicity by individual lipids. The complexity of the underlying processes and differences of the pathology to proposed rodent models makes the development of an effective targeted therapy difficult. The lipid mobilization that occurs in dairy cows in the postpartum period could be a natural model for the metabolic stress commonly observed in the development of liver diseases. We therefore used gas chromatography and histopathological staining techniques to analyze lipid patterns in diparous and multiparous cows during the peripartum period. The most striking change in lip

SUBMITTER: Vogel L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11628505 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature